It’s not too often that pirates – true, historical (German?) pirates – appear in the same news item as the Hell’s Angels. But that’s life for you. Weird, unpredictable, and occasionally full of skull pilfering Germans on mopeds.

For those of you haters who’ve been writing to your newspapers saying that all historically-inclined pirate festivals should be canceled because a few Somalians can’t behave themselves, get bent check this out – pirates teaching Christian values. Now don’t you feel sheepish? Of course, they’re entirely lame, don’t look or sound remotely piratey, but at least they’re making the effort. Or made the effort, rather – this was back in the seventies. I like to think that one of those smiling children grew up to be a right despicable scallywag, and is swilling rum and gutting Spaniards as we speak (in a very “love-thy-neighbor” way, of course.)

This is just weird. Don’t miss the video.